The Booker Library

For over 50 years, the Booker Prizes have celebrated the world's most outstanding fiction, whether written in or translated into English.

Since 1969, almost 700 books have been longlisted for the Booker or International Booker Prize, bringing recognition to authors and translators from all over the world - and introducing readers to works of quality fiction that have, in many cases, changed their lives. The Booker Library showcases these extraordinary works alongside their exceptional authors in one unique space.

Books

Metaphysical thrillers and disturbing love stories, personal meditations and searing dramas: discover books that will resonate with you for the rest of your life

Authors

Compelling, original and masterful storytellers. Find out more about the authors you love, and discover some of the best writers you’ve never read. Yet.

Prize Years

Browse the books, authors and judges from more than 50 years of the Booker Prize and International Booker Prize

Featured books and authors

Wolf Hall

The first volume of Hilary Mantel’s superb trilogy about the dangerous court of Henry VIII

Atonement

A Brief History of Seven Killings

The English Patient

Exit West

Midnight's Children

Girl, Woman, Other

The Ghost Road

Fingersmith

The history of the Booker: a glance backwards on the prize's 50th birthday

A glimpse behind the scenes: The Booker at 50

Gaby Wood, director of the Booker Prize Foundation, explores the prize’s history and that of its younger sibling, The International Booker Prize (for fiction in translation).